Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, Art and biographical museum in Santa Rosa, United States.
The Charles M. Schulz Museum documents the cartoonist's life and work through original comic strips, artwork, and personal belongings displayed across multiple gallery spaces. The building includes a theater, a room for drawing activities, and rotating exhibitions that showcase the evolution of the comic artist's career.
The museum opened on August 17, 2002, two years after Charles M. Schulz died, in Santa Rosa, California. It holds many of the original Peanuts strips and other artwork by Schulz, and its Great Hall displays two works by Japanese artist Yoshiteru Otani: a 3.5-ton wood sculpture of Snoopy's evolution and a 22 ft ceramic mural built from 3,588 strips.
The place shows how Peanuts characters shaped popular culture around the world and continue to do so today. Visitors can see how these figures appear across different areas of daily life.
The museum opens daily except Tuesdays, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The glazed entrance section sits at the base of the curved white facade, below the band of thirteen blue-tinted windows and the black lettering. Three rotating galleries change their exhibits every six months, so repeat visits show different works.
In the Great Hall, a 22 ft (6.7 m) ceramic mural by Yoshiteru Otani is built from 3,588 Peanuts strips that together form Lucy van Pelt holding the football for Charlie Brown. The same hall holds his 3.5-ton wood sculpture tracing the evolution of Snoopy's drawing.
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